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Another Beauty

by Adam Zagajewski · 1998

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This brilliant memoir is Adam Zagajewski's recollection of 1960s and 1970s communist Poland, where he was a fledgling writer, student of philosophy, and vocal dissident at the university in Krakow, Poland's most beautiful and ancient city.

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PolandPolandMore like thisLess of this
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adult
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medium · 215 pages
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poetrypoetryMore like thisLess of this

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